The period of being a teenager is really a good time. Why is it so good? Because they want to be proud of anything. It's like that when you become a teenager. If your family has something even a little bit better, you want to be proud of it. Adults worry about rumors even though they may have good things, but if teenagers have something good in their family, they like to bring up the topic in the tram and on the bus or anywhere else.

Likewise the teen years is the time when they like to be proud of and expect to get such objects of pride. Why is such a time good? Because if they have a treasure, they show it off as it is and make as if it belonged to everybody. If you have a mind that likes to be proud of your treasures, it means you have a strong absorptive power which seeks to make any treasure your own. Do you understand me? (33-274)

The teenager has the basis in his mind to like everything. But what they like and dislike depends on their way of thinking,. A genuine treasure must be eternal. If you have a self-centered treasure, it is not absolute. (33-289)

If you look at younger children, every child wants to become the best. You do too, don't you? Do you have such a mind that you want to become number one in the world? [Yes, we do] What about the young women here? [Yes] Even if she has only been to elementary school, or even if she has not yet entered kindergarten, all women have a dream of becoming the best in the world. All of them have such a mind. Men do too. All have the desire to become the best in the world, even if they have no education and their body is seriously handicapped. Is that so? [Yes]

Then if we go to the best, highest place, will we find the true person there or not? Many people are seeking the top position for themselves. One person chooses this way and another chooses that way. They try to gain the highest-looking position. In whatever way, all humankind is competing with one another to reach the top position as their true hope. Definitely we have such a desire. (39-292)

Would you agree that man originally has such a desire? People want to make this world into their own possession. Children are no exception.

As surely as man receives life, everyone wants to become a world-class person. They think, "The world is mine," and try to become the highest person in the world. Everybody has such a mind of wanting to become the best. The human receives such a mind at conception. Then, what kind of God do you have? If He led your life toward suffering so that you could not achieve such a native desire, how would you understand God? Even if you had bad parents, they would at least grant you to achieve your dream once if you persisted for a long time, wouldn't they?

Then what is the way to make this world your own? It is simple. Be the son or daughter of God who created the world. There is no alternative. You cannot achieve your dream by fighting with the world. If you are the children of God, everything will belong to you, because what belongs to your father belongs to you. What about your father's apartment? Can you call your father's apartment your own? Are there any such children who say, "This is not our apartment-it's our dad's apartment"? No matter how poorly qualified the children may be, they say, "It is our apartment." If we think in such a way, we can discover the way to become the best in the world.

Please strive to become the children of God who attend Him as your Father-then you will come to achieve your desire. Eventually you will have a lot of sources of pride. (48-76)

Usually young men have very hot desire. They dare to think Baektu Mountain fits in their pocket, and to drink the Pacific Ocean as if it were a cup of water. This is the fearless spirit that youth must keep. (151-68)